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For the past decade
or so, I have been working on a book in my scant spare time. It was a book that
examined the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Luke and
struggled with a number of historical puzzles that arise from it.
I have now finished this book and published it under the
title, "Caesar’s Census, God’s Jubilee" and I want to take this
opportunity to recommend it to you. It may give you some wonderful new
perspectives on the Christmas story as you look forward to preaching on it and
reflecting on it this year.
This is not a conservative book - not in its theology nor in
its approach to the Bible - and I realize that some may not agree with some of
what I say because of that, but it is a book that goes out of its way to try
and respect the original message of the author of the Gospel of Luke and to
take seriously the historical situation that Luke describes at the time of the
birth of Christ…